List of personalities of the town of Schneeberg (Ore Mountains)
The list of personalities of the city of Schneeberg (Erzgebirge) contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Schneeberg (Erzgebirge) . These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born here or who worked here.
For the personalities from Neustädtel and the towns incorporated into Schneeberg, see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- Carl Bernhard Speck (1831–1905), conservative politician, mayor and honorary citizen of Neustädtel, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Curt Rothemann (1898–1963)
- Richard Lorenz († 1937), senior seminar teacher
- 1965: Arthur Günther (1885–1974), local history researcher and local politician
- 1981: Karl Schreiter (1903-2001), firefighter
- 1985: Werner Kempf (1925–1999), painter and dialect speaker
- 1991: Gerhard Heilfurth (1909-2006), folklorist
- 1992: Walter Rau (1909–1992), educator
- 2002: Werner Unger (1922–2014), local history researcher
- 2010: Lothar Wetzel (* 1925), local history researcher
- 2014: Karl Henselin (1933–2014), Mayor (1990–1994), Chairman of the Organ Funding Association Reconstruction of the St. Wolfgang Organ
- 2016: Egon Günther (1927–2017), director and writer
sons and daughters of the town
- Hans Schenck (around 1500 - around 1566), sculptor in Berlin
- Martin Planer (around 1510 - 1582), senior miner in Saxony
- Andreas Musculus (1514–1581), Professor at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) and General Superintendent of the Mark Brandenburg ,
- Ambrosius Lobwasser (1515–1585), humanistic writer and translator
- Kaspar Eberhard (1523–1575), Lutheran theologian and educator
- Johann Münch (1536–1599), legal scholar
- Kaspar Sturm (around 1540 - after 1605), organist and organ builder
- Petrus Albinus (1543–1598), Rector of the University of Wittenberg and historian from the Saxon region
- Andreas Reinhard (1571–1613), arithmetic master and author of an arithmetic book
- Christoph Schindler (clergyman) (1596–1669), lawyer and clergyman, pastor in Schneeberg
- Johann Jahn senior (1604–1651), Protestant clergyman and exile
- Erasmus Schindler (1608–1673), trader and blue color master, founder of the Schindler blue color factory
- Rosina Schnorr (1618–1679), entrepreneur
- Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1644–1715), hammer owner and founder of Carlsfeld
- Zacharias Steinel (1657–1710), Protestant clergyman, pastor in the parishes of Neu-Salza and Spremberg
- David Lichtenhahn (approx. 1657–1733), Princely Saxon personal physician and member of the " Leopoldina " academy of scholars
- Johann Christian Böhm (1678–1730), builder and court architect in Hanover
- Christian Hauschild (1693–1759), Protestant theologian
- Georg Gottlob Richter (1694–1773), physician
- Karl Gottlob Hofmann (1703–1774), Lutheran theologian and historian
- Christoph Bauer (1718–1778), Lutheran theologian
- Gottfried Christoph Härtel (1763–1827), music publisher ( Breitkopf & Härtel )
- Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1764–1841), painter and etcher
- Carl Friedrich Döhnel (1772–1853), dialect writer, lawyer and notary
- Christian Friedrich Brendel (1776–1861), mining engineer
- Heinrich Stölzel (1777–1844), musician
- Christoph Friedrich Otto (1783–1856), gardener and botanist
- Carl Anton Bretschneider (1808–1878), high school professor
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schwamkrug (1808–1880), senior art master
- Gottlieb Heinrich Dietz (1821–1849), revolutionary
- Carl Hermann Schildbach (1824–1888), orthopedist in Leipzig
- Auguste Peltz (1824–1900), doll manufacturer
- Christian Friedrich Röder (1827–1900), school director, poet and singer from the Ore Mountains
- Otto Schill (1838–1918), lawyer and local politician in Leipzig
- Hans von Trebra-Lindenau (1842–1914), lawyer and politician, MdL
- Heinrich Jacobi (1845–1916), educator and local researcher of the Saxon Ore Mountains
- Robert Wilisch (1846–1931), entrepreneur and councilor of commerce
- Richard Franz Friedrich (1848–1916), master builder and initiator of the radium bath in Schlema
- Christian Hermann Walde (1855–1906), technical school director in Saxony and Silesia, specialist book author
- Christian Emil Böhm (1874 - after 1935), engineer, educator and architect
- Edwin Bauersachs (1893–1948), Ore Mountains dialect poet
- Heinrich Dörfelt (1899–1967), folk artist who is considered one of the old masters of wood carving in the Ore Mountains
- Georg Lenk (Schnitzer) (1901–1977), wood sculptor
- Erich Schönfelder (1904 − after 1974), folk musician
- Hannes H. Wagner (1922–2010), painter and graphic artist, professor in Halle / Saale
- Armin Günther (1924–2003), soccer player SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
- Sigrid Kupetz (1926–2017), designer and professor in Kassel
- Egon Günther (1927–2017), director
- Siegfried Voigt (* 1950), handball player
- Sabine Danicke (* 1954), non-party politician
- Frank Baumgartl (1955–2010), track and field athlete, born in what was then Oberschlema
- Hans-Jürgen Beier (* 1956), historian and publisher, born in what was then the Oberschlema district
- Brigitte Fetzer (* 1956), volleyball player, born in what was then the Oberschlema district
- Hannelore Anke (* 1957), swimmer, born in what was then the Oberschlema district
- Iris Follak (* 1958), politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
- Uwe Leonhardt (* 1958), company owner and graduate in business administration
- Ulrike Seyboth (* 1970), painter, curator
Personalities who have worked on site
Christian Meltzer : History of Schneeberg, published in 1716
- Peter Weidenhammer (~ 1480– ~ 1540), alchemist, introduced the production of blue paint in the Ore Mountains
- Adam Siber (1516–1584), German humanist and educator
- Andreas Reinhard (1571–1613), arithmetic master and author of a textbook for mathematics lessons
- Johann Zechendorf (1580–1662), philologist and educator
- Johann Böhme (1595–1667), sculptor
- Johann Christian Mack (1634–1701), doctor
- Christian Meltzer (1655–1733), pastor and chronicler of the Ore Mountains , spent several years in Schneeberg and is the author of the Historia Schneebergensis renovata
- Christoph Gottlob Grundig (1707–1780), theologian, mineralogist and publicist
- Johann Gottfried Haas (1737–1815), classical philologist, Hebraist, Romance scholar, grammarian and lexicographer, vice-principal in Schneeberg
- Gottlob Heinrich von Lindenau (1755–1830), royal Saxon chamberlain, district chief forester and manor owner
- Johann Gottfried Immanuel Berger (1773–1803), theologian, pastor
- Ernst August Geitner (1783–1852), chemist, doctor and inventor of the Argentan
- Gotthold Meutzner (1809–1887), cantor and teacher at the lyceum in Schneeberg
- Heinrich Schmidhuber (1811–1867), mountain jury in Schneeberg
- Julius Heinrich Schreyer (1815–1888), miner and private school teacher in Schneeberg
- Ernst Köhler (1829–1903), pedagogue, folklorist and founder of the Erzgebirgsverein
- Ferdinand Bischoff (1838–1909), mining engineer and metallurgical chemist
- Kurt Bernhardi (1847–1892), teacher and first rector of the grammar school
- Gustav Bruno Dost (1849–1916), pedagogue, cantor, composer and music director in the western Ore Mountains
- Hermann Möckel (1849–1920), senior seminar teacher and head of the city council in Schneeberg, co-founder of the Erzgebirgsverein
- Guido Alfred Dost (1859–1929), elementary school teacher, composer, local historian and dialect poet of the western Ore Mountains
- Paul Gilbert (1859–1925), chief magistrate and chief justice councilor, city councilor, local history researcher, chairman of the Erzgebirgsverein
- Werner Pflugbeil (1925–1975), ethnographer and folk artist from the Ore Mountains
- Werner Kempf (1925–1999), painter and dialect speaker
- Hans Brockhage (1925–2009), designer, sculptor and university lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Schneeberg
- Götz Altmann (* 1940), folklorist
- Elvira Werner (* 1952), cultural scientist
On his travels to Karlsbad, Johann Wolfgang Goethe visited the felt pond and mines in the Schneeberger Revier. In 1803 the poet Johann Gottfried Herder visited his son, who was working in Schneeberg, the chief miner S. August von Herder. The Zwickau composer Robert Schumann also worked in the mountain town.